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Words
חָצָה H2673
- Home gloss
- halve
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- divide
- Note
- To cut into two parts: the people into two camps (32:8), the children (33:1), the spoil (Num 31:27, 42); also into more than two (Judg 7:16). "Divide" is פָּלַג's, "split" בָּקַע's
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (2)
- 32:8 And Jacob feared very much, and it was narrow for him; and he halved the people that were with him, and the flock and the herd and the camels, into two camps.
- 33:1 And Jacob lifted his eyes and saw, and look, Esau coming, and with him four hundred men. And he halved the children over Leah and over Rachel and over the two maids.